NIHI is a virtual, self sustaining institute of institutes operating under the concept of an academic Community of Practice. It is established as a federal not-for-profit corporation in Canada. NIHI serves as a co-ordinator and facilitator that assists in defining, fostering the development of, and bonding together local Health Informatics (HI) initiatives in academia and industry dedicated to HI research. NIHI itself is not intended as a locus of research, but rather it will catalyze, foster, facilitate and participate in research carried out by its component entities.
NIHI will have a dominant focus on the problems and issues that are perceived as important by the health system and private industry as it seeks to deliver the basis for products and services that are needed by the health system. It will also pursue the offering of professional education programs and other outreach initiatives that complement but do not compete with existing programs.
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